Tom Odell Quotes

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.